Posted on 09/20/2013 9:33:59 PM PDT by RightSideNews
Obama administration allowed weapons to “walk” across the border into the hands of Mexican drug cartels directly resulting in the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and countless Mexican citizens.Fast and Furious took place between September 2009 and December 2010. Attorney General Eric Holder is fighting tooth-and-nail to keep these records secret – from Judicial Watch and from Congress.And so, once again, we are forced to go to court to get to the truth in the matter. This time we want to know why “settlement negotiations” between Congress and the Department of Justice (DOJ) remain, in a word, unsettled.Specifically, on September 5, 2013, we filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, against the Obama DOJ to obtain all records of communications between DOJ and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform relating to the settlement discussions in the Committee’s 2012 contempt of Congress lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder.This contempt citation was extraordinary. It marked the first time in U.S. history a sitting Attorney General was held in contempt of Congress. So let’s take a step back and review how and why Holder received this dubious distinction and how JW ended up in court.After press reports outed Fast and Furious, Eric Holder flatly refusal to turn over documents to Congress related to the gunrunning scandal, thereby obstructing the congressional investigation. Most of the records request related to a February 4, 2012, memo from DOJ claiming it had no knowledge of, nor did it participate in, Fast and Furious. This, of course, turned out to be a complete and utter lie and the DOJ withdrew the letter.After the contempt citation, President Obama then stepped in to protect Holder by improperly invoking “executive privilege” to keep the records concealed.
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Can “Cash-For-Clunkers” be far behind?
No paragraphs = few will read
Where’s the obligatory “Wall-O-Text; I’m not readin’ it!!!” pic?
Oh, I forgot: “Paragraphs Are Our FRIENDS.”
‘Oh, I forgot: “Paragraphs Are Our FRIENDS.”
Ha! Exactly.
Obama: trust us, the weapons thats going to mexico are tracked and vetted kinda like weapons going into Syria
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